A.R. Von Quotes

In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.

All bores me in the world of facts, I see an end, a limit to all things and my heart thirsts for the infinite and for eternity.

If there is a believe that is capable to move mountains it is the believe in our own strength.

Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.

Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.

We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.

In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

Beware of the virtue which a man boasts is his.

We ask the poet: 'What subject have you chosen?' instead of: 'What subject has chosen you?

They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained.

A defeat borne with pride is also a victory.

Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.

If there be a faith that can move mountains, it is faith in one's own power.

Accident is veiled necessity.

The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.

Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men?

Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.

Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.

Conquer, but don't triumph.

It is unfortunate that superior talent and superior men are so seldom united.

A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor.

However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain.

n every exalted joy, there mingles a sense of gratitude.

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

Old age transfigures or fossilizes.

The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.

The insignificant labor, the great create.

The power of Christ compels you!

I like to play with things a while before annihilation.

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it

The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.

I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more.

Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.

Americans will quarrel over how, who, or what to rescue or save, but the idea that the nation ought to be off doing it is challenged only by a few.

A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

If you don't execute your ideas, they die.

Here's my advice: Go ahead and be whacky. Get into a crazy frame of mind and ask what's funny about what you're doing.

Am I Getting Lazy? Am I Too Busy? Am I Becoming Arrogant? Am I Getting Timid? If you answer 'yes' to any one of these questions, that's your warning to Kick that attitude!

Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.

The German Army is tired. The vain effort to defeat Russia's armies has used up its equipment and reduced its morale.

I myself won't do anything, but I won't stop anyone else from acting.

Get me a broom. I'll sweep my own office.

What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.

A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.

The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development.

The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.